Posts Tagged ‘flashplayer’

How to install Adobe FlashPlayer Firefox browser plugin on FreeBSD 7.2 and higher

Monday, October 1st, 2012

Install linux_base FreeBSD port either using binary pre-compiled one or compiling via port tree.

1. Install and set up linux_base to load on FreeBSD boot


freebsd# pkg_add -vr linux_base
Opening BINARY mode data connection for linux_base.tbz (31858826 bytes).
Fetching ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/linux_base.tbz...^CSignal 2 received, cleaning up..

Or via port tree with cmd:


cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f10 && make install clean

Next add linprocfs to /etc/fstab:


freebsd# echo 'linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0' >> /etc/fstab

Mount linproc virtual filesystem:


freebsd# mount -a

2. Set linux_base to auto load on startup via /etc/rc.conf


echo 'linux_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf

3. Install other libraries on which ndislpuginwrapper and flash player depend

For me it was necessery to install linux-pango and linux-tiff, which were missing. For other people it is likely other packages on which flash pluguin and ndispluginwrapper is dependent to be missing. If that’s your case just install the required ones pkg_add-ing them 🙂


pkg_add -vr linux-pango
....
pkg_add -vr linux-tiff
....

4. Start ABI emulation and set sysctl linux variables

Make sure ABI Linux Binaries is enabled and sysctl variables for the emulated Linux kernel (via fbsd external module) are started:


freebsd# /etc/rc.d/abi start
Additional ABI support: linux.
freebsd# /etc/rc.d/sysctl start
kern.maxfiles: 50000 -> 65535
kern.maxfilesperproc: 50000 -> 12000
kern.maxfilesperproc: 12000 -> 50000
kern.maxfiles: 65535 -> 50000

5. Set some shell and sysctl variables before installing ndiswrapper and flash player

Export OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT and OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS shell variables before installing the respective flash player. I install flash player 10 which is relatively stable on FBSD for newer flash plugins, change the var to whatever FP version.


freebsd# setenv OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT f10
freebsd# setenv OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS f10

It is also needed to set compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.19 sysctl variable.


freebsd# sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.19

6. Install from ports ndispluginwrapper and flashplugin 10

Now installing the Flashplayer is done via flash plugin port and nspluginwrapper:


freebsd# cd /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 && make install clean
....
freebsd# cd /usr/ports/www/nspluginwrapper && make install clean
....

BTW, nspluginwrapper is required because the flash player is not natively compiled to run on FreeBSD but a Linux binary.

It is also good idea to add OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f10, OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f10 to /etc/make.conf to make the settings permanent:


freebsd# echo 'OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f10' >> /etc/make.conf
freebsd# echo 'OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f10' >> /etc/make.conf

7. Adding Firefox, Opera flash plugin support for users

If after installing flash plugin and restarting GNOME in a certain user still t

How to disable or remove completely Adobe (Macromedia) Flash Cookies on Linux

Monday, April 11th, 2011

As I’ve mentioned in my previous post, one of the greatest “evils” which prevents a good internet anonymization whether you surf online is Adobe Flash Player

There are two approaches you might partake to disable the privacy issues which might be related to Adobe Flash cookies saving data about flash banners or websites which stores their cookies to your computer.

To find out if flash websites has already saved their nasty flash cookies on your Linux, issue the commands:

hipo@debian:~$ cd .macromedia
hipo@debian:/home/hipo/.macromedia$ find -iname '*.sol'
./Flash_Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/#s.ytimg.com/settings.sol
./Flash_Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/settings.sol
./Flash_Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/#ip-check.info/settings.sol

The returned output of the above find command clearly reveals the shitty flash has stored already 3 flash cookies on my Linux, 3 cookies which later can be easily requested by other flash banners.
The 3 flash cookies are:
1. Saved by Adobe’s Flash Configuration Manager
2. Saved by the website ip-check.info
3. Saved by s.ytimg.com’s website

Now to deal with the situation and get rid of flash cookies, there are possibly two ways of approach that one can take:

1. One is to use some kind of script like the one clear_flash_cookies.tsch the other one is to completely disable flash cookies.
Using the clear_flash_cookies.tcsh does get rid of flash cookie problems just temporary as it might be set to be executed either once the browser is starting up, or directly via some kind of cron job entry like:

01 11,19 * * * /home/hipo/scripts/clear_flash_cookies.tcsh

eHowever clearing up (removing) the flash cookies, still doesn’t completely proihibit saving up of flash cookies and in the time intervals between the clear ups of the flash cookies, still some websites might save information related to their use on your Linux host and expose this information for other external flash websites to read and retrieve information about your previous websites visits.

Therefore it might be a better solution in terms of browser security to;

2. completely disable the use of adobe flash cookies on your Linux powered desktop.

Disabling adobe flash cookies is possible by either using the online flash Global Storage Settings (Flash Settings Manager) by navigating to the URL:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/
en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html

Adobe Flash Player online settings manager unticked option

And by removing the tick which is present to the option:

Allow third party Flash content to store data on your computer

Or by linking the local directory ~/.macromedia -> /dev/null

hipo@debian:~$ mv .macromedia .macromedia-bak
hipo@debian:~$ ln -s /dev/null .macromedia
hipo@debian:~$ ls -ald .macromedia
lrwxrwxrwx 1 hipo hipo 9 2009-03-30 09:56 .macromedia -> /dev/null

That’s all, Farewell nasty Flash cookies!